Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into… — Robert Doherty Copy Share Image
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“This is the story of the end of the world, the rise and fall of human civilization, the creation of the Partials… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
